Bader A. Alsaleh (Professor, Instructional Design and Technology, King Saud University) @ba_alsaleh On 40 minutes, will present a number of ideas. Why are we interested in social media? What is…
The Mayflower Steps. When we talk about the future, we step out into the unknown. Macy’s, in New York. Immigrants couldn’t imagine so many people, buildings so large. They wondered…
Diego Leal – Creating online learning networks Think of networks = nides + connections + signals – related to what I said yesterday How to make possible cooperation in online…
This is a place-holder post to set up syndication for the Connected Courses course.
It has been months – maybe more than a year – since I’ve been in the local bookstore. We only have one in Moncton, an Indigo-Chapters store, at Crystal Palace.…
by Stephen Downes Introduction: What learners Need Sorry, I forgot to turn on the audio recording. That’s how you start a broadcast, with dead air. Thank you very much it’s…
John Spencer thinks that education is filled with paradox, and lists a number of sources. I couldn’t help but notice that I didn’t see the paradox in any item on…
I’m going to quote at some length from David Wiley’s Facebook page to set this up (so you don’t have to go get a Facebook account to read this), and…
by Stephen Downes Thank you, I have way too much fun with these talks. It shouldn’t be allowed. Thank you very much; it’s a pleasure to be here. This is…
Photo: Wikipedia I’ve travelled quite a bit by air, I enjoy the travel, but agree it can get uncomfortable and frustrating at times. That said, Craig Mod’s advice on Medium…
I haven’t updated my list for Jane Hart’s overall review for some time now, but it’s worth a revisit. This post is prompted by Harold Jarche’s. 10. Word. This could…
The Facebook experiments are actually very clever. The content stream is the presentation of everyone else’s material to an individual user. So, in my content stream, I get stuff from…
Response to Annie Murphy Paul, whose newsletter appeared in my email today, on her article, Technology Is Making Achievement Gaps Bigger. In your email you state “I’d love to get…
Here are abstracts for three talks I have planned for July in London, UK. For APT 2014 (8th July, Greenwich) https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2014/schedConf/index Beyond Free: Open Learning in a Networked World As…
Hello, Mr.Downes My name is ———- ——. You can call me Amy. I am 15 years old. I live in Thailand. Now I have a project about the environment. And…
Those of you who are my age may remember something called ‘new math‘. The idea was to replace fixed-value mathematics, which is characterized with an emphasis on rote learning, with…
During the events of June 4-6 in Moncton I was one of those heavily involved in social media, following and posting to several Facebook threads, Twitter feeds, and the official…
Darren GergleUnderstanding and Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap There is an extensive literature on Wikipedia, everything from collaboration to participation to embedded bias to the uses of Wikipedia data structures…
(My presentation will appear separately) Collective Knowledge in Social Tagging EnvironmentsJoachim Kimmerle, KMRC Even though it is hard to find good definitions of knowledge, most psychologists would agree that knowledge…
Introduction to the Workshop – Ulrike Cress Why a workshop in mass collaboration? Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space Who…
